Over at the site V3.co.uk, they have an article up today alleging that since the Rustock takedown two weeks ago, the bagle botnet has moved to take over as the botnet that is responsible for sending the most spam.  They have not replaced Rustock...

Ever since I published my first post on evaluating talent  a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been thinking about how to apply it to my own life.  The only way to get good at anything – seriously good – is through deliberate practice.  Deliberate...

Microsoft recently released it latest version of Internet Explorer, IE9.  I’ve been running the Release Candidate for a while and I like it.  This may be heresy, but while I like IE9 I think I still prefer Firefox.  Sorry Microsoft folks...

IPv6 changes things up because there are 128-bits in an IP address. Here’s an example from Wikipedia: It’s beyond the scope of this post to describe the notation of IPv6, but you can see that a /32 is no longer the smallest IP range, it is now /64. The...

IPv6 multiplies this problem. We have seen that spammers already possess the ability to hop around IP addresses quickly. They do this because once an IP gets blocked, it is no longer useful to them. There are only so many places they can hide, though...

Recently, a couple of anti-spam (or at least email security related) bloggers have written some articles about IPv6 and the challenges that the email industry faces regarding it. John Levine, who has written numerous RFCs and a couple of books about spam...

It’s all over the Internet today but as it turns out, the ones who were largely responsible for taking down the Rustock botnet was none other than my employer, Microsoft!  I had my suspicions that it was them but since I was not involved in the investigation...

If you haven’t heard it yet, Rustock, the world’s biggest botnet, stopped sending spam yesterday, Wed, March 16.  I guess they forgot to beware the ides of March: The Register reports the following: Spam volumes shrank on Wednesday after the prolific...

This post is not going to be related to cybersecurity at all.  It is going to be about another topic that I am interested in.  However, since it’s my blog and I can write about what I want, i will write what I want. Recently, I finished reading...

I did a Bing search for Office 365 which I used in my previous post.  Along the sidebar I saw the following ad: Free download?  That looks suspicious so I reported the ad as spam.  I did a whois lookup on the domain and here’s what I found...

It’s been crazy busy around here the past few days dealing with a ton of stuff, not the least of which is related to outbound spam. We’ve actually got a good handle on outbound spam, or at least we did.  Currently, we are dealing with two issues...